To say it’s been a whirlwind might be an understatement. When Lauren Daigle brought her delta blues smokehouse voice from the Louisiana bayou to Nashville, TN and signed a deal with Centricity Music in early 2014, everyone concerned already knew she had a great voice. They had seen Lauren’s American Idol auditions from the two seasons she made it to Hollywood. They knew Lauren Daigle had pipes of the sort that could handle a subtle rasp as well as a high-octane arena rock anthem. What they didn’t yet know when they signed her—what no one was prepared for in fact—was the maturity of Lauren’s presence as an artist from day one, and the immediacy of the connection that would form between Lauren’s songs and her audience, and the fact that once in a great while in this unpredictable industry, there actually is such a thing as overnight success.

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